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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… chamber as an anteroom, and the western two-fifths the Library, with the S.W. corner chamber opening from it and … painting in a raised panel of early 18th-century date; the library has a corner fireplace with marble jambs and mantel, … when the modern E. wing was built. The Cellar under the library and drawing room is vaulted and has a large open …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… At the same time a few minor changes were made and the Library was fitted up, but in general the house has suffered … to form a semicircular hearth and covering air-vents. The Library was refitted in the early 19th century. The walls are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… filled in with the present entrance hall, dining room and library. The hall and the W. range were heightened and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… about 50 ft., ht. 1 ft. According to a drawing in the Bodleian Library (Gough Maps, Dorset, f. 76) the blank shield formerly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… comprises a museum of some years' founding, and a public library established in 1781; the library contains more than 3000 volumes. There is also a theological library, in which are many valuable works of the old divines. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 'a pretty town', and commented upon its 'fine church and library, where sundry very old abbey manuscripts', and its …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Secretary Thurloe contributed eighty-one volumes to the library thus inaugurated. 33 A Literary Society was founded … in 1813. 34 By 1824 the Society had 84 members and a library of 2,500 volumes. The Wisbech Museum was founded in … one for a town the size of Wisbech. A branch of the county library was established in 1947 in Alexandra Road, in the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… west gallery with 18th-century French boiseries, and the library with Flemish Gothic and Baroque carvings. 3 In the …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… In 1827 £417 14 s. was paid to Baker for work in the library. V.C.H. Leics. i. 326. Hist. MSS. Com. Hastings, I, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 63; the buildings comprise a spacious schoolroom, with a library, dwellinghouse for the master, and a large …